Archives for SISO

The plot is thickening. On Tuesday Open Europe posted on its blog and YouTube account a video of GeenStijl reporter @TomStaal being pushed about and slapped by MEPs after he confronts them for allegedly ‘signing on and sodding off,’ or for collec…

While all eyes will be on George Osborne and Ed Balls this afternoon, the EU Commission has slipped out its draft annual budget for 2014. This is important as it the first budget to be drawn up using the reduced expenditure limits (or ‘ceilings’ in EU-…

Italian MEP Renato Baldassarre has responded to the posting of the video in which he’s seen pushing and slapping a Dutch journalist (or at least the journalist’s microphone) after being caught on camera allegedly signing in for a day’s work, and then s…

SISO? What could this mysterious four-letter acronym stand for? A complex and bureaucratic way in which MEPs claim expenses back from the European Parliament? Hardly. SISO stands for ‘Sign in and Sod Off’. MEPs receive various forms of allowances (and …